I'll just have water

[not2old]

But jeans with holes sell for more…

A few years back, my niece was wearing fashionable jeans with the knees shredded. I played dumb and quietly asked her if I could help with some money for new jeans. She giggled and didn't get mad at me.

 

[ultrarunner]

Granddaughter was giving a eulogy for her Grandfather yesterday and she said she will always remember the time he offered to take her clothes shopping and she said Grandpa… I just bought these and he said they have holes and she said that’s the way they came and he said I hope you got a big markdown.

 

[2manyrocks]

There was a time when kids wouldn't be caught in a pair of ripped jeans for fear of looking poor. I understand stone washing to make them softer and look used, but rips?

 

[Jstpssng]

I look at some of my jeans and think that I must be sitting on a gold mine. Not only do they have holes in the knees but they're splattered with 1 or more colors of paint.
I must have thrown out millions of dollars over the years!

 

[WinterDeere]

I understand stone washing to make them softer and look used, but rips?

I think this one sentence sums of the whole debate, perfectly. Your parents or grandparents wouldn't have udnerstood stone washing, to make the jeans look used, and you don't understand today's kids holes in jeans. If that isn't a great demonstration of generational gap...

Like Jstpssing, I've thrown away a fortune in ripped jeans. I'll wear jeans with holes in them, but only until the hole gets big enough for my knee or underwear to poke out, then they go in the trash.

 

[Jstpssng]

Back in my landscaping days I might leave the house in the morning wearing my oldest, rattiest pair of jeans. If I was put on the mowing crew on a hot day I'd go home wearing a pair of cuttoffs.

 

[Peter 315]

Back in my landscaping days I might leave the house in the morning wearing my oldest, rattiest pair of jeans. If I was put on the mowing crew on a hot day I'd go home wearing a pair of cuttoffs.

Hope they weren't Daisy Dukes..

 

[bdhsfz6]

With the size of some people now I sometimes wonder how they manage to... clean up back there.
If you have a serious injury you just can't do anything aboot it except hopefully heal.
However with the size of some of the hippos waddling around it's a self inflicted disability by calories.
Long before you can no longer reach back to clean up your arms should be too short to feed your face.
Ma nature didn't do a good engineering job there.

After hip surgery, I made up this rig to "clean up", using plumbing parts I had laying around. It's a toilet tube bent in a "U" with a long shower hose and shutoff.

I just leave it hanging on the curtain rod when not in use.

 

[Jstpssng]

Another story... on a different stint as a landscaper I worked with 3 guys who had been roommates in college. They claimed they went an entire semester without toilet paper; preferring to buy beer instead. After doing their business they would jump into the shower. That was the same job where one of them got hit in the head with a sledgehammer their buddy had thrown to them-from about 30 feet away. He tried to throw it over his friend's head, but the guy got scared and ran directly into it's path.
Luckily it was just the handle which hit him.

 

[Oaktree]

I look at some of my jeans and think that I must be sitting on a gold mine. Not only do they have holes in the knees but they're splattered with 1 or more colors of paint.
I must have thrown out millions of dollars over the years!

I guess I was ahead of the curve on fashion. Had jeans like that forever. Never wore 'em in public though.